Ludwig Beilschmidt, also known as Germany, is desperately trying to defend his country and people from the enemies just beyond their doors; World War II is being fought just out of reach. Obeying the desperate plead of a mother, he saves her teenage daughter, (Name), from an air raid. He takes her into his care, and does everything within his power to keep her existence from the Allied forces; she is his weakness. The Allies, however, have eyes everywhere.

After admittedly the world's crappiest suicide attempt, eighteen year old Charlie Hogan cannot be trusted to be home alone and is shipped across the country to stay with an absentee, dead beat dad in Florida. And thus begins a summer of transformation; of beaches and swampland, retirement homes and the Electro Complex; an anarchic, anachronistic, apocalyptic world filled up with violence and hedonism, home to the best friends Charlie will ever find. And then there's this mixed up boy- the kind who shoots lightning bolts up your spine, right into your skull- who's about to screw with Charlie's whole world. Forget everything you know about boy meets girl, Electro is a hot wet soup of gender identity, Dr Freud, Dr seuss, interminable sexual obsession and prosthetic penises...[hs au]